August 11, 2007 - Avoiding Dorm Disasters - The Early Show, CBS News

The Early Show of the CBS News Channel recently featured a special on products that can help prevent dorm room distasters for college students. One of the featured products was the Tide Laundry Duffle designed and developed by Slingshot Product Development Group. Here is an exerpt from the article:

Make Laundry Less Painful

Let's face it: most college kids don't like doing laundry. So, they often let it pile up all over their room until they run out of clothes, or until they can bring it home (so their parents can do it).

Put an end to that with the Tide Backpack Duffle Bag. It's an all-in-one storage unit/hamper and carry-all for dirty (and clean) laundry. They can even hang items like detergent and fabric softener sheets off the bag, so it's even easier to carry everything to the dorm's laundry room! And, you can even buy them smaller detergent bottles that offer two times the concentrated formula, so there's no need to lug around a huge bottle. Just be sure to encourage them to carry the bag to the laundry room, not back home!

Product: Tide Laundry Duffle, $19.99, major mass retailers

You can read the entire story and watch the accompanying video here: Avoiding Dorm Disasters

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About Slingshot Product Development Group

Slingshot is one of the Southeast's leading product design and development organizations. The company's development teams utilize unique and proven strategies to rapidly launch products for clients in a variety of industries, including consumer products, medical, electronics, military/security, automotive, aerospace, toys, and other categories. Slingshot has developed products with dozens of corporate clients including The Coca-Cola Company, Plantronics, Conair, Kimberly Clark, CharBroil and Lockheed, as well as with innovation-based start-ups.

The company offers a full range of product development services including ideation, conceptual design, prototyping, engineering, design for manufacture, packaging and program management. Additionally, sourcing and manufacturer coordination services are offered through Slingshot's Asia office near Shanghai, China.

Slingshot Product Development Group was founded in 2001 by Sam Zaidspiner, President; George Hatzilias, Vice President of Engineering; and Noah McNeely, Vice President of Design.

About Proctor & Gamble

P&G is a global consumer goods company, founded in Cincinnati in 1837 by William Procter, an English candle-maker and James Gamble, an Irish soap-maker. They have about 250 brands sold in over 130 countries.

Fabric and home care, P&G's largest business unit, covers laundry products, household cleaners and dishwashing products. On a world-wide basis, they represent 30% of P&G's turnover and 37% of P&G's profit.